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Congrats to the folks behind Split, and M. Night Shyamalan at the helm — you've got yourselves a hit!

Buoyed by weak numbers from some other new releases the last few weeks, but still doing very, very well in its own right, the horror-thriller AGAIN took the top spot across the North American box office this weekend, pulling in $14.6 million from about 3,300 theaters!!

That gives Split a $98.7 million gross domestically since its release a few weeks back, and makes it the first Universal Pictures release to run the table at the top of the box office since Straight Outta Compton back in 2015! Wow!

Behind Split, it must be the perfect time for scary movies, because Paramount Pictures' thriller Rings rounded out second place this weekend, taking in about $13 million from 2,931 theaters.

A remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring, it looks like Paramount did pretty well with this one — although they definitely wanted to take #1 this weekend since Split is so far into its run. Oh well!

It wasn't all good news at the box office, though. Y'all wanna talk about BOMBS? Then we have to talk about this new release:

Yesterday,TMZ published a chilling clip capturing an animal trainer shoving a visibly frightened German Shepherd named Hercules into a pool full of water that was being churned by EIGHT motors on the set of A Dog's Purpose.

In a swift response from PETA, the animal rights' organization is calling for a boycott of the movie "in order to send the message that dogs and other animals should be treated humanely, not as movie props."

We LOVE movies about our dog friends - even if they might be a little abstract!

DreamWorks Studios has reportedly bought the rights to the W. Bruce Cameron novel A Dog's Purpose, which tells the story of a pooch attempting to find his purpose in life after being reincarnated multiple times into various families.

The author, who also wrote the novel 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter - which later became a sitcom - will adapt the book into a screenplay with Cathryn Michon.

We'll start stocking up on Kleenex now - this one sounds like a serious tear-jerker!